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Big Bite Lookback: Classic

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Some BassFans might find it odd that Greg Hackney opted to fish deep last week at the Bassmaster Classic at Lake Hartwell. He did it, he insisted, because that’s where he felt he’d have the best opportunity to catch winning-caliber fish. After all, what’s the sense in fishing for a limit at the Classic?

“I could’ve gotten up on the bank and caught enough to make it to day 3, but you couldn’t win that way,” he said. “A whole bunch of guys made it that far, but only one was going to win.”

Instead, the reigning Elite Series Angler of the Year was fishing deep channel ledges with a spoon and jig.

“I wasn’t getting many bites,” he said. “I got six bites (on day 2) and caught three. On Friday, I got six bites and caught four. I don’t know what the deal was. They just weren’t biting very good. I was fishing very deep and I don’t know why they wouldn’t bite.”

The key depth range for Hackney was 35 to 50 feet.

“They had been in about 60 and they had moved up and I finally figured that out on Friday,” he said. “There are schools of fish in this lake that have never seen a bait out there. I have no doubt. It reminds me so much of Toledo Bend. It’s the same way.”

If he had to hit rewind and start over on this year’s Classic, he’d follow the same blue print.

“I wouldn’t have changed a thing,” he said. “I think that was the best way to go about it. There were a lot of 5-pounders out there. With this weather, I don’t have any control over it. It didn’t have anything to do with me. That’s Mother Nature. That’s part of this whole deal – the variables we deal with.”

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